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JustICe, JustICe SHALL YOu pursue THANK YOU, tempLE ISAIAH WALK FOR DARFur teAM! This year’s Temple Isaiah Team had 65 walkers and was the fourth largest team at the 3rd Annual Jewish World Watch Walk for Darfur—Walk to End Genocide. And if you add all of our “virtual walkers” who supported us with sponsorships, then we had more than 200 Isaians, family members, and friends who participated in this year’s Temple Isaiah Walk Team and we raised more than $6,500! The event itself had more than 60 teams and 2,000 walkers, raised nearly $118,000, and had major stories in the Los Angeles Times and the Daily News as well as TV coverage by KABC and Fox News. We owe our Temple Isaiah Team success to the many participating Temple groups and leaders within those groups—our Board of Trustees, Chai Club, Green Team, Daughters of Torah, Isaiah Temple Youth, Isaiah Women, Preschool, and Religious School. We can feel proud that we really walked the walk for justice—including all of our virtual walkers and supporters. Thank you for your amazing support in this year’s very successful Walk for Darfur. With this support we can continue helping countless Darfuri refugees and continue working to end genocide and other egregious acts against humanity. Want to get involved and make a difference? Contact Susan Silver, Temple Isaiah JWW Team Chair at ssilver@posorg.net or 310.282.8440. And do stop by the Temple Office to get your free, JWW High Holiday Kit! • September COLLECTIONS: We will be collecting the following: • Men’s Clothing for PATH • Birthday Bank • Toiletries for SOVA and Beyond Shelter An AfterNOON IN the City – CommuNIty OrGANIZING On Sunday, July 12, 2009, 800 people from across Los Angeles poured into Wilshire Boulevard Temple for a One LA-IAF community action to express our collective concern about issues facing Los Angeles. Forty-eight Isaians were among them! We were people from the many different faith and ethnic communities of Los Angeles: our different faces, languages, and amulets around our necks reflected the beautiful diversity of our city. The community action focused on quality public education, job-training, and rolling back foreclosures. Consistent with the style of community actions, each issue was explained by a presenter and was illustrated with stories by people impacted by the issue, and a solution to a piece of the issue was proposed. The public officials in attendance – Controller Wendy Greuel, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines, L.A. City Council-members Jose Huizar, Bernard Parks, and Jan Perry – each responded, each embracing the solution proposed by One LA. When asked if we are prepared to continue our work, the crowd responded with a resounding “yes.” Our own Rabbinic Intern Rachel Joseph Marah took a leadership role in planning the event and was one of the program presenters. Our work at Isaiah continues to focus on our concerns with public education and strengthening westside schools. We are excited to involve more Isaians this fall as we build relationships with principals, parents and teachers through our neighborhoods. If you would like to join us in our community organizing work, contact Honey Kessler Amado (hkaatty@earthlink.net). • SOVA is a Hebrew word that means “eat and be satisfied.” We are currently experiencing one of the worst times of food insecurity in which people are unable to purchase food to feed themselves and their families. SOVA food pantries provide free groceries and supportive resources to nearly 7000 men, women and children each month, and sadly the number continues to grow. Temple Isaiah will be holding three major collections of food for SOVA: Yom Kippur (at the Century Plaza Hotel), Passover and Shavuot. We need your help! In addition to food donations, we are looking for help with advertising, inspiring and collecting. Contact Rabbi Dara Frimmer in the Temple Office for more information. • Page ten | THE ISAIAN September 2009
New! Family Services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur mornings September 19 - 9:00 am Royce Hall - UCLA September 28 - 9:00 am Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel ,hc “House” Beginning with the High Holy Days, Bayit, or house is one of the central themes that we will be celebrating throughout the year at Temple Isaiah. The house, or home, is where people feel the safest and most comfortable, surrounded by those they love. We at Temple Isaiah are so very fortunate to have another home beyond the place where we rest our heads at night …we have our congregation. This year we invite you to bring both homes together for an unforgettable worship service. For the first time in our congregation’s history, we are presenting a complete service that invites parents and their children to pray, learn and celebrate the High Holidays together in meaningful, interactive worship. Listening to our Temple family, we’ve heard you say that you dream of a way families can experience meaningful worship together. Through our High Holy Day family service we want to make this dream come true. It is our dream to see children and parents side by side in a loving, sacred environment, to hear the voices of grandparents and grandchildren lifted together, and to feel the spirit of whole families open in joy to our faith and tradition. rusu rusk On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we come together as a community to join with our families to hear the sounds of the shofar, the words of Torah, and the songs we love that help to express our hopes and dreams for the New Year. We invite you and your family to join Rabbi Zoë, Rabbi Rick, Rabbi Dara and Cantor Evan for this memorable High Holy Day experience. High Holy Days Family Service September 2009 THE ISAIAN | Page eleven
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